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Annie, please talk to someone. Right now. Best of luck.

[refers to deleted message that was sad, but inappropriate for these discussion boards]

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Chabon and Franzen in fight on Simpsons set!

Heh heh heh heh. [Dr. Hibbert laugh] No no, folks. It's all part of the script!

The script calls for Chabon and Franzen to brawl during a dispute about their literary influences, and standing next to each other in the recording room, the friends ready themselves for a fight. Franzen complains loudly that he has fewer lines than Chabon -- ''Only 38 words!'' -- to which Chabon responds, ``I see there's a little counting going on in the Franzenian corner.''

But I bet they secretly made some jokes about Tom Wolfe's get-up when he was in the can. (From Maud)


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More eye Candy for the boob tube

And after this one, they're set to adapt her chequebook and grocery lists into a series of sexually-charged romps through Midtown Manhattan.


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Lost rules. Submit.

That's not new though, didn't the publish Laura Palmers diary from Twin Peaks?

Fiction fiction

Apparently there is a TV show called "Lost" that intends to feature a mysterious manuscript found on an island. They'll take the product tie-in to a whole new level when the manuscript appears as a book in stores near you. Sweet merciful crap. I just have this vision of some poor struggling genius standing in front of a table at Indigo, head hung, weeping, shakily pulling a rusty razor blade from his pocket....


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TV Guide

Steve Almond has decided to give up literary writing in favour of script writing for television. It's about time.


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Edited by author 05-25-2005 09:47 AM
Pee-ew

A soon to be releaesed book about Gunsmoke. It's a stinker.

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Okay, so the kids are, like, ugly, which is realistic, right? So that's our premise, eh. Let's take it from there. Oh, and throw in a fedora for the dufus...

Canadian screenwriters at the Handicam Awards for excellence in crappy TV.


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First he turns down the OBE

Now he writes a "poem" for the last episode of The Osbournes. This guy is shooting straight for the top.


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"More euthanasia than tragedy"
Dooney's weighs in on the cancellation of Imprint. As does Alex Good, who has a few choice words about the intersection of television and literature.

Television is not the enemy of the written word. They are such very different things they never really compete. But a television show about books is first of all a television show. Which means it has to be fairly snappy and play to personality. And here is the biggest problem: Authors are not always snappy and tend not to have telegenic personalities. When you see authors being interviewed on television it's almost always disappointing. This is so even when the format allows for a long discussion. I have seen Douglas Coupland interviewed on TV, at length, twice and both times he struck me as -- what used to be called -- retarded. This isn't to blame the authors (though in Coupland's case I might make an exception). Their job isn't to be interesting or even articulate in person. But we're talking about making a book show.

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Roight ven, luvvy, 'ow's about a spot o tea wif yeh stories?

Sir Ian McKellen has signed up to play a "dodgy novelist" on Coronation Street. Oh, Magnandalf! How your new fans will cry!



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I am so depressed about this. I've watched and loved that show for years (mind you, I have noticed that recently they've been trying to 'jazz it up' a bit to appeal to a more general audience, and I wasn't to keen on that).

Sigh.... my dreams of ever getting on that show have been completely dashed.